Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...badly we need a leader of Teddy Roosevelt's plain, old-fashioned guts today. Instead, we are stuck with pussyfooting little politicians, afraid of the voters' shadows. Would T.R. ever have sanctioned the ruinous farm surplus system, the Korean disaster, the betrayal of Hungary, the Aswan Dam blunder...
...daybreak, Thursday, August 27, 1908, on the Sam Johnson farm on the Pedernales River near Stonewall, Gillespie County. In the rambling old farmhouse of the young Sam Johnsons, lamps had burned all night. Now the light came in from the east, bringing a deep stillness, a stillness so profound and so pervasive that it seemed as if the earth itself were listening. And then there came a sharp, compelling cry-the most awesome, happiest sound known to human ears-the cry of a newborn baby. The first child...
...clear it for Senate consideration by this week. Lyndon Johnson left his office at a lope, looked in at a meeting of the Armed Services Committee, trotted back to his office, gulped down a cup of hot bouillon, greeted Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey for a discussion about farm supports...
...Arizona's Maine Chance health-and-beauty farm, where Mamie Eisenhower wound up a 14-day course this week, news of the First Lady was harder to come by than a banana split. But last week the staid Oregon Journal (circ. 180,021) cracked the security curtain with a closeup of Mamie that brought the outside world up to date on her weight (it's down), appearance (she "looked years younger") and morale (she missed Ike). Author of the Journal's gossip exclusive was a fellow guest, Esma Jackson, widow of longtime Journal Publisher Philip L. Jackson...
...might more appropriately have been titled Sex Rex. The antagonists of the drama are a father (Burl Ives) and a son (Anthony Perkins), and the subject of their struggle, as in the myths of heroic succession on which the drama is modeled, is the land (a New England farm) and the woman (Sophia Loren). The son aspires to his inheritance, but the father, a massive brute of 76 who vows he will live to be 100, is too strong for him. Then the father marries a young wife-the necessary act of hubris that sets the tragedy in train...